Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/20429
Title: Effect of Radiation on Mixed Convention Boundary Layer Flow Past a Horizontal Circular Cylinder with Constant Heat Flux in Viscoelastic Nanofluid
Authors: Rahimah Mahat
Noraihan Afiqah Rawi
Abdul Rahman Mohd Kasim
Sharidan Shafie
(UniKL MITEC)
Keywords: Mixed convection
Nanofluid
Radiation
Viscoelastic
Constant heat flux
Issue Date: 22-Nov-2018
Abstract: A numerical investigation has been conducted to investigate the steady two-dimensional mixed convection boundary layer flow of viscoelastic nanofluid past a horizontal circular cylinder placed in Carboxymethyl cellulose solution (CMC) and copper Cu nanofluid. The effect of thermal and convective boundary conditions is taken into account. The governing boundary layer equations are reduced into ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. The transformed equations are solved numerically using an implicit finite- difference scheme known as the Keller-box method. The numerical solutions for the wall skin friction coefficient, the heat transfer coefficient, and the velocity and temperature profiles are examined by plotting the graphs for specific values of the governing parameters with fixed Prandtl number (Pr=6.2). The increasing values of the viscoelastic parameter is seen to suppress the velocity field. But the temperature is enhanced with increasing viscoelastic parameter. Thermal radiation enhances the effective thermal diffusivity and as a results the temperature increases. It is found that the skin-friction coefficient increases with the increase in nanoparticles volume fraction.
URI: http://ir.unikl.edu.my/jspui/handle/123456789/20429
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